Η Apple συνεχίζει να ενδυναμώνει την ομάδα μυστήριο των ειδικών σε θέματα υγείας με τελευταία της προσθήκη τον Michael O’Reilly, πρώην chief medical officer και executive VP θεμάτων υγείας της Masimo Corporation.
Η εταιρεία ειδικεύεται στο λεγόμενο pulse oximetry ένα πρωτοποριακό τρόπο που με την επαφή μπορεί με ακρίβεια να μετράει παλμούς ελέγχοντας συνεχώς τα επίπεδα του οξυγόνου στο αίμα. Πολλοί λοιπόν είναι αυτοί που πιστεύουν πως οι εμπειρία του O’Reilly πάνω σε αυτό το θέμα θα μεταφερθεί στο επερχόμενο iWatch της Apple.
Επίσης για να καταλάβουμε καλύτερα που κινείται η Apple δημοσίευμα της MobiHealthNews μας παρουσιάζει τα άτομα που έχει προσλάβει η Apple μέχρι στιγμής για αυτό το άγνωστο προϊόν που αρκετοί πιστεύουν πως ίσως είναι και το iWatch.
Jay Blahnik — Our tipster confirms this long rumored hire too. Blahnik, a well-known fitness consultant, helped create Nike’s FuelBand with Michael Tchao, who returned to Apple in 2009 as a VP of marketing after a few years at Nike working on Nike+ and the FuelBand.
Nancy Dougherty — Dougherty was the hardware lead at transdermal medication delivery startup Sano before taking the job at Apple. Before Sano she was a senior electrical engineer and key hardware designer of Proteus Digital Health’s Bluetooth-enabled, peel-and-stick vital signs monitoring patch. Dougherty spent more than two years at Proteus from October 2010 to late 2012.
Ravi Narasimhan — He served as the VP of research and development at health sensor company Vital Connect before recently joining Apple. In 2012 MobiHealthNews reported that Vital Connect inked a deal with SecuraTrac to develop a mobile personal emergency response (mPERS) offering called SecuraFone Health, which would detect falls, changes in heart and breathing rate and other vital signs, thanks to a sensor worn on the chest or back. He also holds dozen of patents related to health sensors.
Ueyn Block, the former Director of Optics & Systems Engineering at C8 MediSensors, joined Apple last year as a technical lead of optical sensing.
Todd Whitehurst, the former Vice President of Product Development at Senseonics, joined Apple as director of hardware development. Both Whitehurst and Block’s previous experience was in glucose sensing.
